[Towertalk] Re: Double protection - climbing

[Jeff Brown]

Your fall-arrest lanyard should hook to the BACK D-ring.  If your 
fall-arrest device is something like a lad-safe or ascender, then the front 
D-ring is ok because the arresting forces are much lower due to the smaller 
travel before arresting.  A lanyard should attach on the back.  Have you 
ever tried the Y style fall-arrest lanyard?  Much easier to double-hook it 
than having the positioning lanyard slide up the back of the tower.

Just my opinion... 73 - Jeff, WB2RUZ

At 06:07 PM 12/16/2002 -0500, you wrote:
>Message: 1
>From: "Chuck Lewis" <clewis@knology.net>
>To: "Mark Beckwith" <mark@concertart.com>, <towertalk@contesting.com>
>Subject: Re: [Towertalk] Double protection - climbing
>Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2002 13:04:45 -0600
>
>TowerTalkers,
>
>Here's A similar 'Gotcha'. Fortunately I caught IT before it got ME:
>
>I was recently replacing the large vertical on our local DX cluster node
>antenna (110'), and doing a little maintenance on some other stuff while I
>was up there. I use a fall arrest harness with both positioning and fall
>arrest lanyards. The fall arrest lanyard is the 'extendible' type, which has
>about five feet of stretch before snugging up. One end attaches to the chest
>D ring, and one end to the tower. It was brand new and I was enjoying the
>feeling of added security as I climbed past the guy attach points (reach up,
>attach FAR, disconnect positioning lanyard, swing it around tower above
>guys, reattach to waist ring, climb six feet, reach down, grab FAR hook,
>reposition on tower overhead and continue, always having one lanyard between
>me and the tower).